BISMARCK, N.D. (PPR) – The North Dakota Public Service Commission has turned down a petition to re-open a case where MDU and Otter Tail Power were granted a certificate of “public convenience and necessity” for a high-voltage power line from Jamestown to Ellendale.

A group of landowners asked for the case to be re-opened. But Commissioner Sheri Haugen-Hoffart said that petition came too late.

But Haugen-Hoffart says if the landowners still oppose the line, they will have another chance to raise their concerns, when the two utilities file for the corridor and route permit, if and when it is filed.

The project – dubbed “Jet-X” – is a 345 kilovolt line.